Jew-hatred and Israel hatred and the very dim prospects of the West's survival

I've come across three attention-worthy pieces on antisemitism / anti-Zionism today, one by Alexander H. Joffe at Middle East Forum, one by David P. Goldman at PJ Media, and one by George Will at NRO.

Joffe offers three main reasons why millennials dislike Israel: the influence of growing Muslim and Hispanic populations, which are far less supportive of Israel, the new lows to which civic literacy and respect for basic American institutions have sunk on university campuses, and their having been indoctrinated with the meme that the very birth in 1948 of the modern state of Israel was an act of occupation.

He then ties it all together to make his main point: that this animosity toward Israel is but a symptom, albeit a key one, of the overall disinterest among the emerging generation in the civilization that spawned it:

The end of the Biblically-inspired Protestant cultural and political dominance in America bodes ill in many regards, since it was that particular mindset that created the country's unique institutions and values – the separation of church and state, the enshrinement of free speech and freedom of association, respect for the impartial rule of law, religious tolerance, and much more. Other cultures – and the issue is culture, not race – do not hold these values, which, tragically, are now being spurned by an increasing number of Americans.

Whether Clinton or Trump wins in November, America's foundations have been deeply shaken. Millennials and their values are no foundation for a liberal nation-state, particularly in a world where illiberal religious movements and revanchist empires threaten the very existence of the modern order. Unless the existing foundations can be quickly reinforced, Israel, American Jews, and America itself, face unprecedented peril.

Goldman confirms for you that your nose has been in good working order over the years as you detected a stench of moral rottenness coming from Bishop Desmond Tutu:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu touched another tripwire this week by nominating mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize, an act hailed by the Arab press. "Barghouti is currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role in leading terrorist activities during the first and second intifadas that included dozens of suicide bombings against Israeli civilians. He is a former leader of the Tanzim, a militant faction of the Fatah party currently headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, that took credit for many of the murders during the bloody Second Initfada in the early 2000’s. In 2014, he called for the launch of a third intifada," the Jewish Press reported.

It is one thing to excuse Arab terrorism against Israeli civilians--the Left has done that throughout--and it is quite another to propose to reward murderers with the world's most respected humanitarian honor. The world of enlightened opinion has no tears for the half million dead Syrian civilians, the tens of thousands of Kurds murdered by Turkish security services, or the countless dead in the Iraqi civil war now unfolding between ISIS and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias. But it cries a river for suicide bombers who murder Israelis, because the Israelis in some way were asking for it.

That's only one point in his important essay, though. Read the whole thing.

Will's focus is on antisemitism in Britain:

In 2014, before Naseem “Naz” Shah became a Labour member of Parliament, she shared a graphic on her Facebook page suggesting that all Israelis should be “relocated” to the United States. She seemed to endorse the idea that the “transportation cost” would be less than “three years of defense spending.” When this was recently publicized, “Red Ken” Livingstone, former Labour mayor of London, offered on the BBC what he considered a defense of her as not anti-Semitic because “a real anti-Semite doesn’t just hate the Jews in Israel.” Besides, Livingstone said, Hitler was a Zionist (for supposedly considering sending Europe’s Jews to Palestine) “before he went mad.” As mayor, Livingstone praised as a “progressive voice” an Egyptian cleric who called the Holocaust “divine punishment.”

Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, says he wants to cleanse Labour of such thinking. But Corbyn hopes to host at the House of Commons a Palestinian sheikh who calls Jews “bacteria” and “monkeys” and has been accused of repeating the “blood libel” that Jews make matzo using the blood of gentile children. 

This growing menace must be looked at squarely and deeply. A civilization that holds the origins of its core values in contempt is well on the way to its death.